Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois following their deployment by President Donald Trump.
The arrival of hundreds of guardsmen mobilized by the White House comes two days after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced on Oct. 5 that the administration was planning the move. The same day, a court blocked the deployment of California National Guardsmen to Portland, Oregon.
In an Oct. 6 lawsuit, Illinois sued the administration in a bid to delay the deployment, as Trump stepped up threats to send troops to Chicago, which the president said was a crime-ridden “war zone.”
The state’s lawsuit states: “The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor.”…